Editing Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (section)

===Scientific works===
[[File:J.J. Scheuchzer, Physica sacra, tab. XXIII Wellcome L0007426.jpg|thumb|upright|''Physica sacra:''<br />The creation of man – and an individual's development, from fertilization to death]]
In the former category is his self-published ''Beschreibung der Naturgeschichte des Schweitzerlandes'' (3 volumes, Zürich, 1706–1708), the third volume containing an account in German of his journey of 1705; a new edition of this book and, with important omissions, of his 1723 work, was issued, in 2 volumes, in 1746, by [[Johann Georg Sulzer|JG Sulzer]], under the title of ''Naturgeschichte des Schweitzerlandes sammt seinen Reisen über die schweitzerischen Gebirge'', and his ''Helvetiae historia naturalis oder Naturhistorie des Schweitzerlandes'' (published in 3 volumes, at Zürich, 1716–1718, and reissued in the same form in 1752, under the German title just given). The first of the three parts of the last-named work deals with the Swiss mountains (summing up all that was then known about them, and serving as a link between [[Josias Simmler|Simmler]]'s work of 1574 and [[Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner|Gruner]]'s of 1760), the second with the Swiss rivers, lakes and mineral baths, and the third with Swiss meteorology and geology.{{sfn|Coolidge|1911}}

In his ''Physica sacra'' he included arguments for the existence of God, suggesting that an atheist should be shown a pin-hole camera and then shown how the eye is a perfect replica of the same, demonstrating intelligent design. He also followed the contemporary tradition of interpreting fossil ammonites as proof of the Biblical deluge.<ref name=":0" /> He also described fossil plants in his Herbarium diluvianum (1709). He observed the solar eclipse of 1706 and the lunar eclipse of the same year in which he recorded a Perseid meteor shower.<ref>{{Citation |last=Klöti |first=Thomas |title=Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob |date=2007 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1231 |encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |pages=1019–1020 |editor-last=Hockey |editor-first=Thomas |access-date=2023-10-15 |place=New York, NY |publisher=Springer New York |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1231 |isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 |editor2-last=Trimble |editor2-first=Virginia |editor3-last=Williams |editor3-first=Thomas R. |editor4-last=Bracher |editor4-first=Katherine}}</ref>

Scheuchzer's works, as issued in 1746 and in 1752, formed (with [[Aegidius Tschudi|Tschudi]]'s ''Chronicum Helveticum'') one of the chief sources for [[Friedrich Schiller|Schiller]]'s drama ''[[Wilhelm Tell (play)|Wilhelm Tell]]'' (1804). In 1704, Scheuchzer was elected [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]]. He published many scientific notes and papers in the ''Philosophical Transactions'' for 1706–07, 1709 and 1727–28.{{sfn|Coolidge|1911}}